Chapter 2: It's Him.

He gritted his teeth.

"Hello Robin" an all too familiar voice filtered the room.

"Slade"

"Oh how nice, you remember."

"Well how can we forget, you're the only villain that wears that creepy mask." Beastboy tried to joke, but as always it didn't work. Raven lifted her book and slapped him a cross the back of his head with it.

"What? What I do?"

"What do you want Slade, and why did you come back!" Robin was obsessing all over again. 'There he goes again, now he's gonna lock himself in his stupid room until he finds a lead on Slade' Cyborg thought.

"Well actually I want a lot of things but there is this one thing that I know one of you can give me."

"What are you talking about?" "Well I know that maybe you little girlfriend might know what I'm talking about." "Don't you Koriand'r?"

"Who's Koriand'r?" Cyborg questioned. "Yeah dude there is no Korian-what ever here. Right?" Beastboy looked around.

"Ah. It seems you don't as much about your girlfriend than you might of thought. Well I'll get back to you, but for now I'll let her explain. Oh and don't even try and waste your time trying to track me, this warehouse is going to explode in a matter of seconds. Toddles Titans." The screen went black, and on the far West they could feel the rumble under their feet and clouds of smoke forming. "Beastboy go with Cyborg to investigate this warehouse that Slade was in." Cyborg was shocked, "I was for sure that if anything had to do with Slade, you would be the first one to the warehouse, what are you gonna do?"

Robin scrunched down his eyebrows. "I need to find out who this Koriand'r person is and ask questions." Cyborg glanced back at Beastboy and he shrugged his shoulders. Just as they were heading out to the garage, Starfire spoke. "I am Koriand'r"

There was a moment of silence and a few blinks. Robin was the first to speak.

"What?"

"On my planet my name given was Koriand'r. I adopted the name Starfire, when I got here, on planet Earth, but I am afraid I can tell you know furder or explain what Slade was talking about." Robin got mad again, Starfire noticed and took a few steps back holding her arm.

"What do you mean you can't EXPLAIN? What are you keeping from us Star?"

" Dude maybe we should just let her explain, why she can't explain." Cyborg suggested.

Robin ignored him. He got closer to Star and grabbed her arm. Flashbacks were coming back into Starfire's mind as she remembered the way Robin did this to her and she got hurt when he was mad, because she couldn't see Slade. "Robin let go of my arm please." Robin did not. "Tell us right now, I demand it as your leader!" A tear slipped out of her eye and she forced herself free. "No. I promised!" She pushed Robin to the ground and flew quickly back to her room. "DUDE! That was harsh." "Yeah man, you didn't have to scream at her, and grab her arm like that." Raven just stayed motionless but then finally said something. "There are things in her past she does not want anyone to know about, we just have to let her be, and let her tell us on her time. Not ours. You have no need to be mad at her."

Robin jerked back up and was furious. "A madman is about to do who knows what and the only lead we got on him right now is a stubborn girl who doesn't feel like telling us what he's talking about! Wouldn't you be angry, or at the least bit worried about innocent lives?" There was an awkward silence. "Well if you aren't then this is not the team that I thought we were." The whole rest of the team let out a gasp, except for Raven, but she was surprised and gasping on the inside. Cyborg shook his head. "You got some problems dude, some major problems. Come one BB, before Robin has another melt down." Before Robin could say anything Cyborg and Beastboy got in the T-Car and made their way to the blown up warehouse. " I think you should apologize." Raven said while teleporting back to her room to meditate. Robin hated being wrong, but he knew she was right. He let out a sigh. "Fine. I'll go apologize." He started making his way up to Starfire's room and was about to knock but he heard something that broke his heart. Sobbing and crying from the girl he loved and he knew it was because of him. He couldn't stand it anymore. He knocked and asked her to open up. "Please Star just let me in." There was silence, but no answer. "Look Star I'm sorry about the way I acted down there. I was a real Jerk." Still no answer. "Fine, if your not going to let me in I'm just going to force myself in. Do you want that?" Again, still no answer. He was about to kick down the door, but she opened it. She was standing in front of him and looked straight into his eyes. She pointed a finger at him and said, "You have no right. You have no right to touch me or grab me or force me to say anything, especially the way you did it, and in front of my friends. You may not know certain things about me, but it certainly does NOT mean you can use me as some sord of one of your leads. If I wish not to talk about it stays that way." Robin just stood there. He has seen Star angry with other people, but never like this, and especially not ever with him. "But Star-" "That's Starfire." "But I always call you Star and- never mind, Starfire, I'm just worried about you, and what Slade said, and what you said about promising someone." She turned around and sat on her circular bed. "Why can't you tell me? I promise I won't tell anyone else." "No, I promised not to tell anyone else." "Promised who? Star, Fire." Remembering she had just told him not to call her Star anymore. "I promised my father. I do not know how Slade found out, about me but I did not tell him and my father is dead, so he couldn't." Robin out a hand on her shoulder as to try and comfort her, she didn't reject it. "I'm sorry about your father. I lost mine too. But would you want a bunch of lives at stake just because of a silly promise." He noticed what he said was wrong, so he clasped his mouth with his other hand waiting for a slap on the face. " Silly! This is no Silly promise!" "Sorry Starfire I didn't mean it like that, all I'm saying is-"

"All your saying is that you have no respect 'ever so what' my promises to others are. You are selfish, all you care about is yourself and no other!" She pushed his gloved hand of her shoulder and turned around to face the wall. "Selfish! All I want to do is save other people from a crazy lunatic who wants control over the city and that makes ME selfish! Come on Starfire, you have to tell me!" "Come on nothing! I have explained why I can not say anything and it is probably best that you do not know anyway." Robin was going to reach for her shoulder again. But she stood and pointed to her door. "Perhaps it is best for you leave at the moment." She said in a calm voice. "But Star-" "Please, just leave, I can no longer scream and yell at you. Just go." Robin's face softened and he began his way to her door, but he stopped to say something. "Star, we're always here for you all of us, especially me, you can tell us anything. Please, just think about." She turned to her window and said, "In this case, I am not sure you may be able to be there for me." She let a tear once again slip out but she quickly wiped it away. Not wanting Robin to notice. But he already knew, with her red puffy eyes, who couldn't. Robin opened the door.

PLOP!

Cyborg and Beastboy fell into the room. Robin glared.

"Oh look there's where that nickel went!"

Beastboy, the idiot that he is didn't get it. "What nickel?" Cyborg elbowed him, and he let out a yelp. "Oh! That nickel." He winked. From behind them a voice came, "You two are utterly pathetic." They all turned to see Raven. Robin looked back at the now standing Cyborg and Beastboy. "Have you two been listening this whole entire time!" Robin yelled while closing the door to Starfire's Room. "And aren't you supposed to be at the warehouse?" Beastboy whistled and it was up too Cyborg to explain. "Well you see…um…" The alarm rang again and lights flashed. Beastboy and Cyborg sighed in relief. Starfire stepped out and bumped into Robin. "Trouble"

They all quickly nodded and ran back to the big screen once again.

This time it was Slade, but he wasn't on the screen.

"Where is he?" Robin asked. Cyborg typed a few keys on his computer and gave them the coordinates.

They all went to the tower garage. "Cyborg, and Beastboy take the car. I'll take the R-Cycle and Raven and Star take the skies. Got it."

They all said yes and were on their way.

"Star, Raven do you see our target?"

"No, Robin we just got up here, we haven't had time to exactly examine the-"

"I see something."

"I'll get back to Robin." Raven closed her communicator and looked at where Starfire was pointing. "What do you see Starfire?"

Starfire focused her gaze and gasped. Raven took notice. "What? What is it?"

"It isn't Slade."

"But Robin said it is and witnesses say they saw his costume colors, who else can it be, unless he has a new apprentice?" Starfire trembled at the thought of the person she was seeing, be Slade's apprentice. But her eyes didn't deceive her. It was him. She responded with one name.

"Kevin"